Niger opposition chief arrested after presidential coup claim
Security forces in Niger arrested the country's main Opposition leader hours after he called for a general strike and accused the president of carrying out the equivalent of a coup by unilaterally dissolving the nation's top court.
The arrest comes amid rising tensions in the desert nation, where President Mamadou Tandja has come under sharp criticism at home and abroad for manoeuvring to stay in power after his second five-year term in office expires in December.
